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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

"The rainbow trees get saved"

With much excitement brewing within the walls of our classroom over the past few weeks, this post will highlight a new path of our Rainbow Inquiry whereby our students' have taken us from a scientific exploration to one that is imaginative and taps into our students' creativity through oral language, authentic writing opportunities and through visual arts!

I would like to dedicate this post to our students who have collaboratively co-planned, co-created, and co-constructed our class' very own...

RAINBOW TREE!

Moreover, I would also like to share the following story since it was created by our students as part of an interactive writing experience. We hope you enjoy reading and witnessing our rainbow tree come to life!

"The rainbow trees get saved"

Written by the students in Room 126

Once upon a time there was a rainbow tree. This tree lived in a rainbow forest (M.P). All of the trees were rainbow trees (D.K).

One day, there were regular trees in the forest and somebody dropped fruitby accident. The fruit went inside the dirt and it went all the way to the rainbow forest. Then, the trees became all the rainbow colours through the roots. An apple became a red tree, orange became an orange tree, lemon became a yellow tree (T.B).

Then, one tree got magical and it grew rainbow leaves (S.R). It had special powers and any tree that was brown, that magical tree made it rainbow (D.K). And then, it started raining!

The sun came out again and then a rainbow came out of the leavesand it went way up into the sky so everybody could see it (J.S-SK)!

But then, one day, a guy came and chopped downthree of the rainbow trees (E.S)! The magic disappearedand there were no more rainbows up in the sky (T.D)!

The guy took those three rainbow trees with him (E.S) because he was trying to steal the magic (T.D)! Then, a bunny came and planted a magic carrot so that the rainbow trees can grow again (P.B) but it did not work (H.R)!

One day, a group of Kindergarten studentsfound out that these trees were missing so ... (Ms. Schmidt) they made their own rainbow tree! They painted it white first and then rainbow colours (E.Sk).

The next day, they went to the rainbow forest (S.R) and they dug a hole and put the rainbow tree in the hole (T.D).

All of a sudden, more rainbow trees started to grow (Z.P) and lots of rainbows appeared back in the sky (J.S-SK)!

Jocelyn Schmidt

I am a Full Day Kindergarten Teacher with the York Region District School Board who is passionate about inquiry and play-based learning. Through my growing understanding and experiences with emergent curriculum, I continue to feel intrigued by how students and educators can make their thinking and learning visible. As an innovative explorer of technology, I hope that my blog makes visible to you my professional discoveries, wonderings, inspirations and that of my students and hope that you feel inspired!

Please use this blog as a source of inspiration for you. I would greatly appreciate that you respect that the writing and ideas from this blog are our intellectual property, and as such can be made reference to.